25-28 July #2272 Sporting Post

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MONDAY 25th - THURSDAY 28th

No. 2272

JULY 2016

FLAMINGO PARK 12:15pm (Monday)

DURBANVILLE 1:05pm (Tuesday)

SCOTTSVILLE

12:20pm (Wednesday)

VAAL

1:00pm (Thursday)

The Daring Bid colt Howling Tom could give Corne Spies another Nursery success

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KIMBERLEY NURSERY at Flamingo Park on Monday Have horse will travel. The pioneering spirit of trainer Corne Spies is legendary and admired in South African horseracing. He has conquered the remotest reaches of the country from his Vaal home base and is on the road to Kimberley again on Monday.

C

orne has an outstanding record in the R100 000 Kimberley Nursery and bids for a fifth win in just eight years when he saddles a quartet of runners in the 1400m feature. Spies, who took out his trainer’s licence in 2000, after learning the ropes from the tender age of 7 under his Dad Tobie, was ‘lucky enough’ to have bought a top filly called Fun Fly in that same year – which put him on the map and gave him his first SA Fillies Nursery win in 2001.

World Apart

Fifteen years on in a very different world, with a Zimbabwean championship title trophy in the cabinet, and minus a bit of hair - but with the same natural energy and drive to succeed - the amiable Spies continues to churn out the winners from PE to Pietermaritzburg. And after being knocked off his Kimberley Nursery wave in 2015 by up-and-coming relative newbie Tienie Prinsloo, he will fancy his chances on Monday to build on the

impressive ‘Corne Kimberley Club’ of Indigofera (2010), Oh So Var (2012), Hawksworth (2013) and Topostwego (2014). The race is a tough form puzzle as only seven of the twelve runners have won – and then only one race each. The Daring Bid colt Howling Tom is the first of the Spies quartet. Cont. p.2

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